Hail in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Monday, May 9, 2022
The Storm Prediction Center logged 28 hail reports in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Monday, May 9, 2022, between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm CDT, in 6 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 E St. Paul (Ramsey County) at 5:33 pm. NOAA radar flagged 123 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 58 rated a 100% chance of hail and 64 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 19 places in Anoka, Dakota, Ramsey, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Becker 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Zimmerman 3 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Eagan 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Oak Grove 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Oakdale 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- South St. Paul 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- St. Francis 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Andover 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Anoka 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Apple Valley 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Burnsville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Hastings 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Maple Lake 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Maplewood 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Mendota Heights 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Orrock 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Ramsey 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- St. Paul 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- West St. Paul 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 1.00 | Anoka | Anoka | (MPX) |
| 9:00 am | 1.75 | Andover | Anoka | PHOTO MEASUREMENT. (MPX) |
| 9:06 am | 1.00 | Maple Lake | Wright | (MPX) |
| 9:10 am | 2.00 | 4 NW Becker | Sherburne | PHOTO MEASUREMENT. (MPX) |
| 9:11 am | 1.75 | St. Francis | Anoka | (MPX) |
| 9:12 am | 2.00 | Becker | Sherburne | PHOTO MEASUREMENT. (MPX) |
| 9:15 am | 1.25 | Becker | Sherburne | TIME ESTIMATED. PICTURE VIA FACEBOOK. (MPX) |
| 9:25 am | 1.25 | 3 S Orrock | Sherburne | (MPX) |
| 9:29 am | 1.00 | Zimmerman | Sherburne | (MPX) |
| 9:30 am | 1.00 | Zimmerman | Sherburne | PICTURE VIA FACEBOOK. (MPX) |
| 9:32 am | 1.50 | 4 N Zimmerman | Sherburne | (MPX) |
| 9:40 am | 1.50 | St. Francis | Anoka | (MPX) |
| 9:45 am | 1.25 | 5 NNW Ramsey | Anoka | (MPX) |
| 4:55 pm | 1.25 | Oak Grove | Anoka | PICTURE VIA TWITTER. (MPX) |
| 5:00 pm | 1.50 | 1 N Oak Grove | Anoka | PICTURE VIA FACEBOOK. (MPX) |
| 5:10 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNE Burnsville | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:15 pm | 1.25 | 1 SSW Eagan | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:20 pm | 1.00 | Apple Valley | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:20 pm | 1.00 | South St. Paul | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:21 pm | 1.75 | Eagan | Dakota | PICTURE VIA TWITTER. (MPX) |
| 5:28 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE West St. Paul | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:33 pm | 2.00 | 2 E St. Paul | Ramsey | (MPX) |
| 5:35 pm | 1.00 | 1 WNW South St. Paul | Dakota | (MPX) |
| 5:35 pm | 1.50 | Oakdale | Washington | (MPX) |
| 5:38 pm | 1.75 | 3 SSE Maplewood | Ramsey | PICTURE VIA FACEBOOK. (MPX) |
| 5:40 pm | 1.00 | Hastings | Washington | PICTURE VIA TWITTER. (MPX) |
| 5:42 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE Oakdale | Washington | (MPX) |
| 6:00 pm | 1.25 | Mendota Heights | Dakota | PICTURE VIA TWITTER... TIME ESTIMATED VIA RADAR. (MPX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
123 signatures from 4 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 58 were rated 100% and 17 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMSP | 68 | 23 | 29 | 5 | 2.50 in | 8:19 am | 10:13 am |
| KMPX | 37 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 4.00 in | 8:16 am | 10:11 am |
| KDLH | 13 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 4.00 in | 8:52 am | 9:51 am |
| KARX | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2.00 in | 8:43 am | 10:12 am |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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